Archery in Bhutan
On a Sunday in any Bhutanese town, you can hear an archery match before you see it. The sounds carry. There is the slap of an arrow hitting a wooden target, followed almost immediately by singing. A small group of women, dressed in bright kira, are improvising verses about the archer who just shot, sometimes praising him, often teasing him about his stance, his strategy, or his marriage. The archer, holding a bamboo bow with another arrow already in his fingers, is laughing along with them.